Consider the lovely "Funeral Sentences" of Henry Purcell, set to the words of Isaiah:Man that is born of a woman Hath but a short time to live, And is full of misery.
Galvin Scott Davis' timeless new film, Daisy Chain, a five minute animated short narrated by Academy Award winning actress Kate Winslet, was born from misery and travail, and is the most stirring recent example of art communicating the subject of anti-bullying.
(9) Casinos Have Ruined the Mississippi Delta: The Mississippi Delta -- where the blues was born out of the misery of black sharecroppers -- has always thrived on creating a rich culture out of its poverty.
Estates like Woodberry Down embody an ideal of decent housing for all that was born out of the miseries of the 1930s and terror of the 1940s.
But she is also at pains to point out that her comedy was born not just of misery but also relish at the power of shocking people.
Thus, an annual celebration of misery was born.
Growing up in a country where tomorrow is a gift, where adversity was everyday life, Victor's childhood was filled with the everyday reality of misery, being born in 1981, just a year after Dictator President Iddi Amin was deposed and during the peak of Uganda was going through series of ethnic-based guerrilla wars.
Born amid the mud and misery of the Western Front trenches, the curious British tradition of the official "war artist" has now yielded almost a century's harvest of sobering, disturbing and often hauntingly beautiful works snatched from places of death and destruction.
Indeed, born in 1957, Baker apologises for the lack of misery ("The whiff of the workhouse") in this memoir.
She also fights with her ghastly mother, a Russian mommie dearest determined to make Natalie (born Natasha Zakharenko) lead a trash-can life of misery and celebrity.
"This is what you were born into, this is the misery of your reality," he tells young men who remind him of himself at an earlier age.
